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CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

May 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Click here for the flashback interview with David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen for EASTERN PROMISES. With CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, David Cronenberg once again presents us with a dystopian future, or is it an alternate present, that is alien and yet, somehow, instantly familiar. It’s not just the machines that mimic the skeletal structures of… Read More »

Tagged With: autopsy, body horror, body modification, collapsing ecosystem, dystopian future

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

May 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

Jerrod Carmichal is a quietly compelling presence in his directorial debut, ON THE COUNT OF THREE. As Val, half of a suicidal duo out to make the last day of their lives count for something, or at least to make it a day less depressing than the ones that have so far rounded out their… Read More »

Tagged With: bully, guns, mulch, psychiatry failure, reason for living, revenge, suicide

HOUSE OF GUCCI

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

HOUSE OF GUCCI

HOUSE OF GUCCI is a ramshackle accretion of muddled plots studded with oddly incoherent character development and performances that range from stock (Al Pacino) to enigmatic (Adam Driver). This overlong effort takes a tale of sex, money, and power among the super rich and renders it into a dull slog brightened only by Lady Gaga’s… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, designer, huate couture, internecine fighting, Italy, Milan

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

For all the meticulous detail in THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE about the early life of Tammy Faye Bakker, this biopic about the rise of fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker has an ending that is curiously sparse. It’s not just Tammy Faye’s second marriage to Roe Messner that is erased, though he does… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Christianity, evangelicals, hypocrisy, religion, televangelism

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

December 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Flames are never far from Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), starting with those lapping near, but not too near, his heels as he exits the house that he’s just set alight over the body he’s deposited beneath the floorboards. In Guillermo del Toro’s oneiric vision of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Notice, too, the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a novel, carnival, con artist, mentalist, metaphor, mind reader

ANTLERS

October 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

ANTLERS

I don’t know that I subscribe to the idea that there are some works of prose that are “unfilmable.” This is not to say that a successsful translation from one art form to another doesn’t require a certain amount of compromise around the source material. Prose, while relying on the eyes in order to absorb… Read More »

Tagged With: Filial Relationships, glistening viscera, myth, mythic creatures, Native-American, Oregon

THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2

October 1, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2

There are many words that spring to mind when viewing THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2, and few of them are laudatory. The twisted humor of Charles Addams’ original cartoon, or of the cult-classic of the 60s television series, or of the previous incarnation of the franchise are little in evidence in this dreary exercise in, of… Read More »

Tagged With: family vacation, mad scientist, NIagara Falls, road trip, San Antonio, sequel, teenage angst, voodoo doll

CANDYMAN

August 30, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CANDYMAN

CANDYMAN wants to do more than creep you out with mere gore. To that end, this sequel to the original does more than ignore the three subsequent films in that previous franchise, though it does, like those other films, drench the screen in blood from time to time. Here, though, the true horror that it… Read More »

Tagged With: bees, broken communities, Cabrini Green, Chicago, gentrification, microagressions, oppession, police brutality, racism, sequel

SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW

May 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW

Chris Rock is a man of enormous talent, enough money to do whatever he wants professionally, and the clout to do so. This is why we have the puckishly trenchant documentary about race and beauty standards, GOOD HAIR, and the long-running television series, Everybody Hates Chris. Alas, it’s also why, as star and one of… Read More »

Tagged With: blood and guts, father-son issues, hero worship, hot weather, poetic justice, police corruption, reboot

FRENCH EXIT

April 12, 2021 By Leave a Comment

FRENCH EXIT

FRENCH EXIT is a deft comedy that is low key but also pointed and deeply affecting, despite concerning itself with the trials and tribulations of a woman who has raised superficiality and self-absorption to a high art.

Tagged With: bankruptcy, mother-son, Paris, widow

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